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Dokkaebi King

Title held by the highest dokkaebi authority and keeper of StoriesDokkaebi Bureau

The Dokkaebi King is a title and system role rather than one immortal person shared by every world-line. The principal world's former King of Stories, the 1863rd-turn king who becomes the Fourth Wall, Biyoo, and the altered 1865th turn's Bihyung are distinct holders. Their different choices turn the office from an instrument that preserves the Star Stream's banquet into a means of protecting a reader and, later, searching for reunion.

Biography

The office above the Bureau

Long before a reigning king appears directly, remembered sayings establish the philosophy of the office. Dokkaebis are fated to love Stories; attracting viewers is not the same as making a good scenario; and apparently new narratives are built from older ones. These ideas explain why kingship is both enormous privilege and inherited compulsion. Ordinary dokkaebis broadcast scenarios because Stories sustain their species, while the King administers that appetite at the level of the entire Star Stream. (Chapters 211, 217, and 244)

Great Dokkaebis execute Bureau policy, judge channels, and oversee Giant Stories, but even they imagine the remote King watching what they produce. At the Final Wall, the office reads settings, records endings, controls access to accumulated Stories, and seeks succession. That authority determines what receives continuation, yet the title does not create one consciousness across every regression. A king from another world-line can remember, speak, and decide differently, just as alternate versions of incarnations do. (Chapters 338 and 508)

The Wenny King stands opposite this office as ancient rival and former friend. Their conflict concerns more than institutional territory: the Wenny side seeks the secret beyond the Wall, while dokkaebi administration keeps the machinery of scenarios and spectatorship running. The opposition survives across world-lines, but its participants are still particular versions rather than ageless singular bodies moving unchanged between every history. (Chapters 506–512)

The principal world's King of Stories

Kim Dokja finally meets his world-line's King in the Final Fog. The figure first uses Kim's father's face, then passes through the appearances of Lee Sookyung, Persephone, Hades, and other people whose identities can destabilize him. Blue eyes persist through the transformations. The display makes his method explicit: he can reproduce recorded forms and Stories, but wearing a face does not make him the person whose relationship gives that face meaning. (Chapter 506)

The King claims an accumulation of lives as human, demon, savior, and dokkaebi. Having witnessed innumerable tragedies, he appears exhausted by their repetition while remaining unable to accept a world without Stories. He offers Kim succession as the next architect of the Star Stream. The price is emotional detachment: Kim must abandon love for particular people, accept them as editable narrative material, and continue the banquet sustained by the Oldest Dream's observation. (Chapters 506–507)

That offer is dangerous because it contains genuine knowledge rather than obvious deception. The King understands the settings, private channels, recorded pasts, and machinery around the Final Wall. He argues that observation grants existence and promises authority capable of revising failed outcomes. Yet his solution treats individual people as replaceable instances of a Story. Kim rejects salvation that preserves narrative while destroying the relationships for which he wanted an ending in the first place. (Chapter 507)

When persuasion fails, the King reproduces stages, identities, memories, ancient Good-and-Evil Stories, relics, and underling Outer Gods. He attacks Yoo Joonghyuk not only with force but with the repeated history most capable of reopening a regressor's wounds. The 999th-turn Outer Gods also reject the bargain that brought them into this world, refusing to remain disposable pieces merely because an administrator can explain their suffering as necessary narrative material. (Chapters 508–509)

The company and its allies eventually break the prescribed conclusion around the Wall. Yoo Joonghyuk cuts the King down, and the fallen ruler's soul crosses the boundary with the Wenny King before disintegrating. This death ends the principal world's former holder; it does not kill the king of every other regression or erase the office. The distinction is essential because another king has already entered Kim's life by an entirely different route. (Chapters 511–512)

The 1863rd-turn king and the Fourth Wall

In the 1863rd turn, a counterpart of the Dokkaebi King survives defeat through a puppet and grants Han Sooyoung's wish. He follows her to the First World-line as a middle-aged human man in a fedora, stripped of much of his former authority. Together they search for the creator of Ways of Survival, expecting to find a god outside the universe. Their search instead leads them to the young Kim Dokja and to the causal loop that has made author, reader, and apocalypse depend upon one another. (Chapters 532–533)

When Han realizes that Kim will die without the novel, she begins writing the story that once kept him alive. The former king becomes editor, uploader, respondent, and storyteller. For years he helps prepare chapters, delivers them to the sole reader, and maintains the exchange under the identity tls123. His devotion is not to abstract scenario consumption. He recognizes Han as the creator he sought and chooses to help complete an epic whose first purpose is to keep one child reading. (Chapters 533–534)

At Han's final instruction, he activates the paid service, sends the last text and revised files, and carries out the favor after she can no longer do so herself. The act helps trigger the scenario world, making his work part of the apocalypse as well as part of Kim's survival. The contradiction is not resolved into simple benevolence: telling the Story preserves the reader, but also creates the system through which its tragedies become real. (Chapter 535)

This 1863rd-turn king later becomes the Fourth Wall inside Kim. In doing so he loses access to much of his former identity and memory, protects Kim's mind, consumes threatening texts and Stories, and chronicles the reader he was assigned to preserve. The epilogue reveals his origin only when the companions enter the Wall. He is therefore connected to the main-world King by title and counterpart relation, not by uninterrupted personal continuity. Treating them as one person would make the same individual both the external ruler Yoo kills and the internal guardian still surrounding Kim, contrary to the world-line distinction stated in the corpus. (Chapter 538)

The Fourth Wall's later resistance to the companions also carries the old office's logic in altered form. He wants a completed ending for the reader he has recorded and fears that reopening it will only inflict another cycle of suffering. Even as protector, a former King can still mistake preserving a Story's finished shape for honoring the choices of the people inside it. (Chapter 538)

Successors after the Bureau

The principal world's Bureau collapses without eliminating every remnant of its system. Biyoo states that she has inherited the Dokkaebi King's Star Stream in full and publicly declares herself the new King. The title does not transform her into the dead ruler. She remains the reincarnated forty-first-turn Shin Yoosung, with a dokkaebi childhood, relationships, memories, and promises formed through her own life. (Chapters 527–528)

Biyoo uses the office for a different purpose. Rather than asking companions to detach from one another so the banquet can continue, she promises to learn Wenny inheritances, cross world-lines, and overcome the distance imposed by regression. She studies in the Dark Stratum, repairs and pilots the Final Ark, exercises residual Bureau authority over the Cloud System, and travels with Yoo Joonghyuk to distribute Han Sooyoung's manuscript. Kingship becomes infrastructure for reunion, though the inherited system remains incomplete and costly. (Chapters 529 and 549–550)

Her authority is not omnipotence. World-line travel requires a vessel, energy, coordinates, recovered knowledge, and training; the Star Stream weakens as dokkaebis and its operating structures disappear. Even a King can be separated from companions, delayed for years, or forced to rebuild mechanisms from fragments. Biyoo changes the office's purpose without escaping its dependence on Stories and systems. (Chapters 529 and 549–551)

The altered 1865th turn supplies another distinct holder: that world's Bihyung is the Dokkaebi King. In the principal world, Kim once promised kingship to his Bihyung, but that Bihyung died before receiving it. The counterpart's later title is not a resurrection or a linear promotion of the dead broadcaster, and it is not Biyoo's immediate replacement. It is another outcome in another regression. (Chapter 541)

By the end of the corpus, Biyoo remains the principal world's Dokkaebi King and identifies herself as the person once known as the Disaster of Floods while completing an old travel promise with Yoo Joonghyuk. The office continues, but its holder refuses the former King's premise that love must be surrendered to administer Stories. (Chapter 550)

Appearance and personality

The principal King has no stable original appearance he still remembers. He first confronts Kim in the face of Kim's father, then moves through familiar parental and mythic figures while blue eyes glow through each transformation. In battle, his expression appears noble, evil, beautiful, and sorrowful at once; ash-like Story rises from a horn and white wings accompany the ancient authorities he deploys. These forms represent accumulated and reproduced Stories, not proof that the King is biologically identical to any copied person. (Chapters 506 and 509)

His personality combines sincere devotion to Stories with detachment from the people who live them. He is weary of tragedy and wants continuation, but his administrative perspective has made replaceability seem merciful. That failed form of love makes him more than a simple sadist: he can understand why Kim wants salvation while being unable to value the exact relationships Kim refuses to exchange for a revised version. (Chapters 506–509)

The 1863rd counterpart appears in the First World-line as a middle-aged man wearing a fedora. His conduct is collaborative and devotional toward Han Sooyoung, though his later Fourth Wall form becomes guarded, possessive of a completed ending, and fragmented in speech and memory. Biyoo retains her small fluffy dokkaebi body when she takes the title. Their different appearances and voices reinforce that “Dokkaebi King” names an office carried by distinct people. (Chapters 527, 533, and 538)

Abilities, attributes, and stories

Final Wall administration

A reigning King can read settings, inspect recorded Stories, open contexts, control access, and offer succession from the Final Wall's center. The principal ruler knows private information and operates above Great Dokkaebi channel administration. His authority is strongest around the Wall and the system he governs; it remains subject to Probability and can be broken by combined fragments, living Stories, and actors who reject the ending assigned to them. (Chapters 506–512)

Story reproduction and armory

The principal King materializes ancient Stories, relics, stages, identities, and memories recorded across world-lines. These reproductions let him attack a target's emotional history as readily as the target's body. They can still fail against greater Status or contradictory living Stories, and a reproduced face or scene does not grant the personal identity whose image it borrows. (Chapters 506 and 508–509)

Shape-shifting and accumulated identities

The main King changes appearance and draws authority from accumulated lives as human, demon, savior, and dokkaebi. Because he has forgotten an original face, shape-shifting expresses how thoroughly administration has submerged the individual beneath collected Stories. Each form is a Story-based presentation rather than evidence of one continuous biological life as every being copied. (Chapter 506)

Storytelling and the Fourth Wall

The 1863rd king's most consequential abilities are editorial and protective rather than battlefield supremacy. He helps upload and revise Ways of Survival, manages communication with its reader, activates the paid service, and later functions as the Fourth Wall around Kim's mind. The transformed Wall can protect, consume, record, and restrict, but memory loss and attachment to a completed ending constrain its judgment. These powers belong to that counterpart's development and should not be backdated onto the principal King of Stories. (Chapters 534–535 and 538)

Inherited Star Stream authority

Successors such as Biyoo gain residual system control, Bureau permissions, and knowledge usable for scenario settings, the Cloud System, and world-line travel. The inheritance does not restore a healthy universal Bureau. Without other dokkaebis the system fades, and cross-world work still needs infrastructure, fuel, coordinates, vessels, and learned Wenny techniques. Biyoo's accomplishments are uses of inherited authority by a new person, not proof that the previous ruler survived through her. (Chapters 527–529 and 549–551)

Relationships

  • Kim Dokja: The principal King views Kim as a successor who must surrender attachment; the 1863rd counterpart becomes the Fourth Wall that protects and chronicles him. The two relationships belong to different kings.
  • Han Sooyoung: The 1863rd king follows Han as a fellow seeker, recognizes her as the creator he wanted to meet, edits and delivers her novel, and performs her last favor after she disappears.
  • Fourth Wall: The Wall is the transformed 1863rd-turn King, not the principal-world ruler encountered outside it. Loss of memory turns a former administrator into Kim's internal guardian and chronicler.
  • Wenny King: The Wenny King is an ancient institutional opponent and former friend who seeks the secret beyond the Wall. He and the principal Dokkaebi King disintegrate after crossing it.
  • Biyoo: Biyoo inherits the principal world's office and Star Stream without inheriting the former King's personhood. She redirects authority toward reunion, travel, and manuscript distribution.
  • Bihyung: Principal-world Bihyung dies before the promised kingship. A separate Bihyung holds the title in the altered 1865th turn and must not be treated as the dead broadcaster restored.

Items

The office controls or accesses an immense armory of recorded relics, but the article does not assign all such reproduced objects to every holder's permanent inventory. Biyoo later repairs and pilots the Final Ark for world-line travel; the vessel is infrastructure she uses as King, not the source of kingship itself.